23 March 2009

I found this great website via Will and Beyond called savethewords.org, a website dedicated to saving words that are about to go extinct. How do words go extinct? If we stop using them, the dictionary people remove them from the dictionary, and then theoretically they are extinct words.

At savethewords.com you choose from a massive screen full of words and enter your email to adopt the word of you choice. I just adopted a few including:

Latibule: (n.) Hiding Place. My copy of twilight is safe in its latibule, so my husband can't throw it away to avoid watching it again.

Its now my job to start using latibule in everyday conversation to help save it from extinction! I have an official certificate and everything! A word of caution, they don't actually email you the word's definition, so it is best to jot it down when you sign up to adopt the word. I've adopted several words that I don't know how to use!